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The Rubio – Crist Debate
I pulled my sick self out of bed to watch the Rubio – Crist debate this morning on Fox News Sunday. I’d say this one was an easy Rubio victory. All Crist could seem to do was make personal attacks on Rubio while Rubio tried to stick to the issues. Crist looked like a loser.
Most telling to me is that Crist defended the McCain/Bush immigration plan and he said his favorite Senator is John McCain. That tells me all I need to know.
Chris Wallace asked Crist if he could end the rumor that he might run as an Independent and Crist’s answer was “I am running as a Republican.” Well. Right now you are, yes. He never said, I won’t switch, but Kathryn Jean Lopez at NRO took it to mean that he ruled it out, so maybe he did. In looking at the literal words, I don’t think he did.
I live-blogged the debate – you can check out the finer points here.
On Twitter, @Rubiopress was debunking Crist’s misinformation as fast as he churned it out.
Potluck 
fuzislippers 10:32 AM on 03/28/2010 Permalink |
I haven’t been following this very closely. What is going on with Rubio and the accusations Crist is making about using PAC and RNC funds for personal uses? If that’s true, I think that undermines Rubio’s fiscal responsibility argument and find it difficult to support him. The problem would be in his attitude to public and donor funds, not so much in how much money he spent, etc. I’m sure Charlie Rangel didn’t start his tax evasion career hiding money off-shore, either.
But I only know what Crist is saying, and suspect that as Rubio didn’t appear to want to address these accusations that there may be some truth to them? If not, then he’s golden.
Pat Austin 11:28 AM on 03/28/2010 Permalink |
Crist’s accusations are debunked here: http://www.marcorubio.com/live-rapid-response-info-for-1st-rubio-crist-debate/
Rubio has already addressed the accusations and I think wanted to debate rather than defend, today. Crist was all about the attack and never made the case as to why anyone should vote for him.
fuzislippers 1:32 PM on 03/28/2010 Permalink |
Okay, good. Just wanted to make sure that Rubio wasn’t misusing funds, and I think it’s important to ask these questions even of people we like. :)
psychonauticalmindbloom 6:32 AM on 03/29/2010 Permalink |
I find it funny that republicans think they can talk about fiscal responsibility at all after 8 years of george w. bush. All he did was spend money overseas. At least the current president is spending the money here at home. The republicans are making a mistake every time they elect someone like Rubio because although the majority of republicans are behind him, the majority of americans are not. What the republicans would like to think of as a cleansing of their party actually seems to me to be a shrinking. So I invite nominees like this. They will win republican primaries but lose general elections because the extreme righties alienate themselves from so many parts of society like homosexuals, minorities, and young people. Charlie crist is a good common sense politician compared to most & I think the GOP should be glad to have him aboard instead of throwing him under the bus. Plus I don’t think a state could ever work… a congress could never coexist properly with an extreme left like Alan Grayson and an extreme right like Rubio working along side each other. These “teabag” candidates will simply not have the support of the mainstream…